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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Common Education Feb 11th, 2026

Common Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So HB 4274 has to do with military students and military school choice.
  • If you are a virtual student, obviously you are learning on a computer, and so we're not going to limit
  • But our goal is for K through 5, which I believe there are roughly 17,000 students in that that fall
  • I don't know. ...K through 5, which I believe there are roughly 17,000 students in that that fall into
  • So students can opt out, but districts can't opt out, correct? Thank you for the question.
Summary: The committee first took up HB 4274, with a PCS accepted without objection. The bill concerns military students and military school choice, restoring language from the Open Enrollment Act, removing a six-month residency requirement for military families, and addressing early enrollment administration. After brief discussion, the committee voted 10-0 to report the bill out as due pass. HB 3076, authored by Rep. Lepak, would create a new alternative certification pathway for teachers to help address the teacher shortage by allowing third-party certifiers outside the traditional higher-education route. Members asked about accreditation, existing pilot language, and how this differs from emergency or adjunct certification. The author said the bill is intended as an additional route for career changers, with examples from other states and a model that includes follow-up support after hiring. The committee also discussed adding mentor-teacher language, and the bill passed 10-2 as due pass. The committee then considered HB 4358, which would limit screen time for K-5 students to one hour per day, with the author noting possible changes for class-based use, testing, and virtual schools. HB 3312, with a PCS, would require schools to offer firearm safety education in grades K-12, while allowing parents to opt their students out; it passed 9-2. HB 3288, also with a PCS, would increase physical activity for school-age children and prohibit withholding recess or physical education from pre-K through 5th grade as punishment; it passed 11-0. Finally, HB 3885, with a PCS, would impose mandatory disciplinary actions for third- through fifth-grade students who assault or attempt to assault teachers or school employees. The author said the bill is aimed at improving teacher safety and retention, while still allowing in-school suspension and case-by-case superintendent discretion. Members discussed whether schools already have such authority and whether suspension is always the best response. The bill passed 8-3 as due pass. HB 4277 and HB 4173 were laid over.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • who make up one in four students in our public schools.
  • It can create a rat race mentality amongst students.
  • More than half of all our high school students are Black and do not report student rankings.
  • That's all for the student who couldn't come in until four.
  • First of all, in terms of students getting financial aid, sometimes students believe that they're getting
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 3/3/25

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> practices and administrative procedures practices and administrative procedures Act Act Act chwan
  • He said these are policies and procedures that we run by.
  • , and our citizens deserve to be able to go in and find out what the policies and procedures are.
  • </c><01:41:21.520><c> are</c> what the policies and procedures are what the policies and procedures are
  • I'm a big fan of policies and procedures I'm a big fan of policies and procedures and<01:45:46.360><c
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Higher Education Mar 19th, 2026

Joint Committee on Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • But every student doesn't have that awesome experience.
  • For students with celiac disease, this can be really stressful.
  • For students with celiac disease, not having clear information about food, So, for students with celiac
  • Students like me feel included in everyday school life.
  • My name is Elise Byer, and I'm a student at Wellesley College.
Bills: H5012, S2927
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Students spend more time stressed, tired, and bored than inspired.
  • The system becomes about scores, not students.
  • We want to be teaching our students what? How to fill out an exam?
  • I'm going to say that the STAAR is simply a bad test for students.
  • That never works out well for our Texas students.
Summary: The committee meeting focused on the impacts of House Bill 8, which proposes increasing the frequency of state testing for students in Texas. During the meeting, various testimonies were provided by students, highlighting their concerns about the negative effects of standardized testing on their educational experience. Students expressed that the pressure of multiple assessments causes significant stress and detracts from the joy of learning. Some lawmakers voiced their opposition to the bill, emphasizing the need for a thorough review and consideration of alternative evaluation methods that prioritize student well-being over testing metrics.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 15th, 2025 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • back side of that, there is currently in the bill $500,000 for the Minot State University Advancing Students
  • It is the money for Minot State advancing students toward education and employment program.
  • Representative Swantec, I would move that we go to the, for the Advancing Students Toward Education and
  • Seeing none, clerk will take the roll for it to add a million dollars to the Advancing Students Toward
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee reconvened to act on Senate Bill 2003, the higher education budget. Members first replaced prior intent language related to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences with new language stating it is the intent of the 69th Legislative Assembly that an Allied Health Facility expansion be completed, and that the 70th Legislative Assembly consider supporting completion of the project. The chair explained the change was meant to avoid binding the next legislature to a specific $50 million commitment while still helping UND with fundraising. The amendment was moved, seconded, and adopted unanimously. The committee then addressed funding for Minot State University’s “Advancing Students Toward Education and Employment” program. After some discussion about the amount already in the bill and what had been previously agreed to, the committee approved adding $1 million, bringing the total appropriation for that line to $1.5 million. Members referenced prior testimony in support of the program. That amendment also passed unanimously. After approving the amendments, the committee adopted a do-pass recommendation on Senate Bill 2003 as amended, with Representative Sanford designated as the bill carrier. The chair noted the bill would likely be taken up on the floor later in the week. The committee also said it would return to commerce-related work the next day and then adjourned for the day.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 15th, 2025 at 10:15 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Louser to strike the section saying establish a grant program to support students who
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee first reconsidered Senate Bill 2003 in the higher education budget and adopted several changes. It removed $3 million for enterprise resource planning, struck $2 million for a grant program for students who are pregnant or recently gave birth, and then added $3 million back into workforce education and innovative grants, restoring that line to $12 million. Members also discussed a possible purchase of the 19th Avenue building in Fargo for the State School of Science, but the motion was withdrawn for later consideration. Other higher ed items were briefly noted, including tribally controlled community colleges and a state magazine funding line, but no final action was taken on the building proposal during this segment. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce budget, and reviewed a long list of funding items. It restored a vacant workforce FTE, increased tourism marketing to $10 million and Find the Good Life to $5 million, raised Operation Intern by $1 million, removed a $100,000 infrastructure study, increased autonomous agriculture grants to $15 million, and set the Regional Workforce Impact Program at $10 million. It also kept or adjusted several other items, including the uncrewed aerial vehicle replacement program, the global talent office, tribally controlled community colleges, Native American small business grants, and technical skills training grants. A major new provision would transfer $50 million total, split between SIF and Bank of North Dakota profits, to the Theodore Roosevelt Library Museum Endowment Fund, matching a private fundraising challenge; members expressed both support and concern, and said they would revisit it later. The committee also discussed language to allow commercialization of Vantis and to permit the Turtle Mountain gaming compact proposal to move forward with required federal approvals, while clarifying that a previously discussed $100,000 study had been removed. Commerce officials said the workforce language was intended to centralize data and strategy, and they noted Operation Intern would need an emergency clause because applications begin in May. No final vote on the Commerce budget was taken in this segment, and the chair said the committee would return later to finish both budgets.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 14th, 2025 at 02:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Professional Student Exchange Program.
  • Student financial assistance grants in Section 23.
  • We want to keep these students in school.
  • I had a section requiring repayment of professional student exchange programs funding by students who
  • It was for the Minot University advancing students.
Bills: SB2003
Summary: The committee met to work through the higher education budget, beginning with a conflict-of-interest request from Representative Martinson, who was excused from voting because of a partnership that leases office space to Bismarck State College. Members then reviewed the higher education institution budget sheets, covering ongoing and one-time funding items for campuses and system projects such as BSC housing, Lake Region roof repairs, UND’s STEM and National Security Crossroads projects, the UND allied health facility, NDSU projects including New Horizons, DSU deferred maintenance and campus security, Mayville’s Old Main, Minot projects, and the regional health institutes. Members also discussed student financial assistance, the professional student exchange program, IT security funding, and workforce/education innovation grants. Several amendments and policy questions were debated. The committee adopted an amendment to make workforce education innovation grants competitive rather than automatically distributed, and then voted to remove language prohibiting those funds from being used to duplicate academic programs. Members also removed similar anti-duplication language from the New Horizons section. They agreed to extend the UND hyperbaric chamber transfer authority to 2027 and clarified language around UND land-sale proceeds. A proposed amendment to add $5.6 million for the Wahpeton State School of Science building purchase failed for lack of a second, and a proposal to restore fetal alcohol spectrum disorder funding to UND was left for conference. The committee also discussed, but did not add, a tuition cap change, a study on the Praxis exam, and several governance-related provisions. The committee spent significant time on broader higher education policy items, including a $3 million enterprise resource planning request for the university system, a $2 million grant program for students who are pregnant, recently gave birth, or are caring for young children, and a $1.1 million request for library age-verification software tied to the Odin system. Members also discussed dual-credit authority for UND and NDSU, a goal for the UND medical school to increase North Dakota resident enrollment, and intent language regarding the commissioner/chancellor model and presidential search authority. At the end of the meeting, the committee approved the amendments and then gave the higher education budget a do-pass recommendation as amended, with Representative Sanford designated as the carrier. The Forest Service budget was also approved, including two additional FTEs, and the committee adjourned after noting it would continue with other budgets the next day.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 - March 31, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 - March 30, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Administration of Criminal Justice Mar 24th, 2026

Administration of Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:
  • When a threat is made to a school, against a school, against the students or teachers, it's not just
  • It creates accountability to the students, to the youth, and in some circumstances the parents.
  • So probably the most important part of this bill is that it also requires schools, the students, and
  • We need to make the children aware, the students aware that it's not harmless. It's not a prank.
  • We need to make the children aware, the students aware that it's not harmless. It's not a prank.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • our students are taught.
  • Indeed, it will harm all students.
  • These restrictions threaten how well educators can educate and support. students and how well students
  • The student wins and district wins.
  • This not only abandons students of color and LGBTQIA. students and their needs but calls into question
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPC-JHA Joint Public Hearing - Thu Feb 19, 2026 @ 2:01 PM HST

Consumer Protection & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • What makes the performing arts students different than the athletic students in terms of being helped
  • Student athletes had to be amateurs.
  • Student athletes had to be amateurs.
  • This is what is different, and what makes student athletes a little bit different than other students
  • Student athletes will not be able to retain and recruit student athletes to be competitive programs.
Bills: HB2384
Summary: The joint committees heard HB 2384, relating to student athlete compensation, with testimony largely in support from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Athletics, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Athletics, and several other supporters. UH Mānoa said the bill would create a framework for name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies, including education, financial literacy, agent regulation, transparency, and reporting. Supporters argued NIL is now a necessary part of college athletics to recruit and retain athletes, keep Hawaiʻi talent in-state, and remain competitive, while also helping student athletes develop as future leaders. One supporter also emphasized the need for financial guidance so young athletes do not mishandle NIL income. Committee members questioned why the bill would direct public funds to NIL payments rather than broader athletic operations or other student groups, whether other states are funding NIL directly, and whether the approach could create a bidding war. UH representatives said the university already has NIL contracts in place, but the bill would strengthen and formalize policies. They said the requested funding model includes about $5 million for NIL and $10 million for athletics operations, with the NIL amount intended to supplement private fundraising; they also noted UH has raised roughly $1.5 million to $2 million for NIL since July 1 and is targeting $3 million this fiscal year. Members also raised concerns about fairness, public spending priorities, and whether the university’s policies adequately protect student athletes. The committees voted to pass HB 2384 HD1 with amendments. The chair said the bill should be amended to explicitly state that allocated funds may be used by UH for NIL payments to student athletes, and asked the next committee to examine whether a different payment scheme, similar to those used elsewhere, might be more appropriate for public funds. One member announced a no vote, citing concerns about direct public funding of NIL and unequal treatment of student athletes versus other students. The JHA committee adopted the same recommendation, with some members voting with reservations. Afterward, the meeting moved on to HB 644 HD1 on single-use plastics, where the first testimony was in opposition from the Hawaii Food Industry Association and the Biodegradable Products Institute, both arguing the bill as drafted would improperly exclude certified compostable products and should better align with composting and certification standards.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 19th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I heard from the students.
  • I heard from the students.
  • with the student.
  • the student involved to attend school with the student.
  • Currently, when a student is found to have bullied another student, Currently, when a student is found
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Public Hearing 03-20-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
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  • But... literacy and having a student project literacy and having a student project that<00:20:18.880>
  • </c> students to do. students to do.
  • Um, and right now there's 30 students that are participating, and 90% of the students have hit their
  • Um, and right now there's 30 students that are participating, and 90% of the students have hit their
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Apr 15th, 2026

Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • The students hit hardest are not suburban kids with two parents and a family car.
  • For those students, transportation isn't a convenience.
  • experiencing homelessness, students in foster care, and students with disabilities.
  • Last year, Ever Driven transported more than 12,000 homeless students and foster care students and over
  • cost for a special education student was $13,825.
Bills: S2743, S2861, S3021
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Pillar two requires nutrition education for Texas physicians. students, medical students, medical residents
  • This bill will affect over 8,000 schools and 3 million Texas students.
  • You know, 61% of those students don't bring their own snacks or meals to school.
  • You and I have students. You and I both have students.
  • And my daughter, who's a fourth-year medical student now, has had zero nutrition training.
Bills: SB 25, SB25, SB314
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • : insufficient physical activity in schools, lack of nutrition education for doctors and medical students
  • we've seen rising rates of mental health struggles, substance use, and poor lifestyles. requiring students
  • Recess is vital for students' physical. and social and mental well-being, and it should be an untouchable
  • arrangements, physical education should provide structured and intentional active engagement for students
  • By strengthening this language, we ensure that students are receiving the benefits. of a high-quality
Bills: SB 25, SB25, SB314
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Jan 29th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Early Learning & K-12 Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Fourth, the bill establishes required procedures when students score or are projected to score a one
  • Our students will need to use them.
  • We know there's a large gap of students that are eligible for free and reduced-price meals and students
  • system by students on a phone.
  • So in other words, if we have 100 students in a school, we would send $100 out for 100 students next
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several education-related bills. Senate Bill 6192 would require structured literacy and numeracy programs, add math interventions similar to the existing third-grade reading “gate,” create annual STAR teacher bonuses for selected math and ELA teachers, and revise literacy endorsement standards. The prime sponsor said the bill is intended to refocus schools on core academics and use research-based instruction, while OSPI and ESD representatives supported the goal but raised implementation concerns about data access and the teacher award process. Testimony was mixed: some parents and students said the bill could help struggling readers and math students, while others, including WEA and several witnesses, opposed merit pay, grade retention, and what they viewed as overreliance on standardized testing or a single reading approach. Senate Bill 6206 would create a Commerce-run pilot program to incentivize child care providers serving children of first responders, especially during nonstandard hours, on short notice, and when children are ill. The sponsor and multiple law enforcement, dispatch, and labor witnesses described child care as a major barrier to recruitment and retention, particularly for women and shift workers. Committee questions focused on how the proposal would relate to existing DCYF child care subsidies and nonstandard-hours bonuses, and whether Commerce was the right agency to administer the program. Testimony was strongly supportive overall. Senate Bill 5346 would direct OSPI to incorporate mobile device use into digital citizenship instruction and report on school phone policies and barriers, with final recommendations due in 2028. Supporters, including students, parents, educators, and researchers, said phones distract from learning, contribute to social and mental health problems, and can be addressed through bell-to-bell restrictions. Opponents argued that local school boards should decide policy, that phones can be important for safety, communication, and medical needs, and that the bill was too vague. The committee also heard Senate Bill 6125, which would stabilize school funding for districts, charter schools, and tribal compact schools if enrollment-based state revenue falls below prior-year levels; the sponsor and witnesses said it would provide short-term stability amid declining enrollment and budget uncertainty. The committee then moved into executive session on Senate Bill 5841, which would require evidence of a financial aid application in high school and beyond plans.